NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defense Exercise Formidable Shield
U.S. Sixth Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) kicked off exercise Formidable Shield 2023 in the High North and North Atlantic Ocean on May 8, 2023. The…
Nigerian Navy Joins Global Effort to Map Ocean Floors
The global initiative dedicated to achieving a complete map of the ocean floor – The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project – has announced a new partnership with the Nigerian Navy…
Germany Takes Part in Swedish Exercise Aurora 23
Sweden’s armed forces practiced from April 24 to May 11. Supporting NATO naval units were recruited by the German staff DEU MARFO Maritime Forces Staff guided. The Aurora 23 maneuver…
First Dual UNREP for FS Jacques Chevallier
On May 4, 2023, as part of its sea trials off Toulon, the Jacques Chevallier force supply ship (BRF) carried out its first so-called “triple” refueling at sea (RAM), for…
HMS Lancaster Makes Drug Bust in Arabian Sea
A frigate from the United Kingdom Royal Navy seized $6 million worth of hashish from a fishing vessel transiting the Arabian Sea, May 8. HMS Lancaster (F 229) was operating…
USS Oakland Participates in Exercise Croix Du Sud 2023
Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Oakland (LCS 24) participated in Croix Du Sud 2023 with 14 allied and partner nations at New Caledonia, April 24 to May 8, 2023. Croix…
China Verifies Far Sea Capabilities of Type 055 Destroyers
A flotilla of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has wrapped up a month-long far sea exercise in the South China Sea and the West Pacific, a move experts…
Five Power Defense Arrangement Exercise Concludes
Exercise Bersama Shield – a bi-annual military exercise between the five nations in the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) – concluded in Malaysia on Friday. Approximately 250 Australian Defense Force…
Bath Iron Works Lays Keel of Their First Flight III DDG
The keel for the future USS Louis H. Wilson Jr. (DDG 126), a Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, was ceremonially laid at Bath Iron Works, May 16. The ship is…